Recently m & s Marshall Production with the help on iFilmGroup did some filming for the short film “Malicious Attack” which deals with bullying.
Award-winning director Matthew Marshall who is behind the film had completed the short film a while ago but had run into a few delays with the film during post-production.
The first was a lack of a solid editor. He went through a few before deciding to take the project on himself. Using his skills from his post-graduate certificate in digital nonlinear editing.
Although Marshall likes to keep his distance from holding too many crew positions due to it not giving an objective point of view he felt with the delay it was important to take over the role of editor to get the project moving forward.
But as he has been working on editing the film, a few delays have come up. First, Marshall's talking to various people has turned up some ways that the film could have been more enhanced and brought in some other aspects of the issue of bullying. This could be just looked at as hindsight in what could have been done better. But a second more serious issue aroused. The project had some technical matters to be overcome and a possible timeline issue within the film that made it necessary to add some additional scenes.
Shelby Simpson (playing Zoe Carwin)
New Ideas
This has allowed Marshall to incorporate some of the ideas that had been presented to him. It also allowed for some people who had missed the original film to be incorporated in the film. Several up and coming people in both acting and crew within the iFilmGroup community now had an opportunity to be part of this film.
Jordyn Taylor (playing Brynne Jameson)
The scenes feature Jordyn Taylor (playing Brynne Jameson) and Shelby Simpson (playing Zoe Carwin). Both girls have been a part of a couple of the films that Marshall and the iFilmGroup team had been working on. Most recently was the iFilmGroup short film Not Ready, where both played roles of a group of private school girls.
Team of Merucci and Simpson.
Other Opportunities
The shooting day for Malicious Attack presented some other opportunities for the additional cast. Including putting Simpson together with someone that she has danced within Elliette Merucci. The team of Merucci and Simpson has been called “Ellby” when they have done pair dancing. The chemistry between the two girls was clear. They have not only danced together they are good friends.
Flashback Scenes
Taylor, Devynn Carver and Leeann Finkbeiner.
The scenes also included a flashback scene where two other ladies were part of the scene and played cheerleaders who bully Taylor's character. The two ladies involved in the scene are Devynn Carver and Leeann Finkbeiner. Carver has been part of a few of the productions also, whereas Finkbeiner is new to the iFilmGroup but shows promise and is interested in future opportunities.
Marshall now moves the film into post-production to finish it up over the winter. The release date for the film has not been set as of yet. ■
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